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The above error is typical of a bad Realtek driver. You can go into Device Manager and right click on the driver and Uninstall then reboot. This will reinstall the driver in case and sometimes that will help but most likely you need to try a different driver. See if you can get the Win 7 version to install:

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Zukolol

Posted Yesterday, 12:41 PM

The game was up and running so I'm assuming it was supposed to take quite some ressources.

Should I completely uninstall the device (realtek family thing) or just the driver? I only found a way to do the former, but I guess that's what you meant?

It also seems to be the real issue there, I was watching youtube videos with nothing else running, the pc froze for ~10 seconds (could still move the mouse, was still hearing the audio), then I was able to move the window until it froze again for a few seconds, after which my network connection was gone. Tried unplugging the RJ45 and restarting the driver, nothing worked and I had to fully restart the computer.

RKinner

Posted Yesterday, 03:29 PM

RKinner

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Yes. Go into Device Manager, under Network Adapters find your Realtek and right click and Uninstall. Reboot. It will find it again and reinstall it. Sometimes you get lucky and that's all you need but Realtek has had a problem getting their Win 10 driver to work reliably. If that doesn't help then I would download both drivers (win 10 & 7) from the Realtek page I gave you. Then try and get it to accept the Win 7 driver. If it accepts the driver then doesn't work you will then have the win 10 driver available.

Alternatively you should be able to find an Ethernet card for the PC. Amazon shows a D-Link DGE-530T 10/100/1000 Gigabit Desktop Adapter for only $8.